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Understanding the Initial Process For Surrogacy in Law

Family lawyer Cara Nuttall discusses how research and communication are vital to avoiding stress in the surrogacy process. For legal advice or to speak with a child law specialist call freephone 0800 916 9055 or visit our website http://www.slatergordon.co.uk/family-and-personal-matters/children/child-law-adoption-law-and-surrogacy-law/

[MUSIC PLAYING] For surrogacy arrangements, there really is no substitute for research, and more research still. And because the laws are so complex, and because at the moment there is no uniformity internationally with surrogacy arrangements, which means that the laws in one country may differ very, very significantly to another. And they don't always gel. It can be a perfectly straightforward process if you know from day one what you're doing, and you make sure that everything you do is geared toward that end game of your parental order, and that nothing you do is going to prohibit you from having that order. I would also say the communication is key. We do see people who go into these kind of arrangements with friends or people who are known to them, family members. That can be a wonderful experience for everybody. But it's very, very important that people go into it with the same expectations. So what you can see, for example, is somebody who's provided genetic material surrogacy services having a particular expectation about the role that they will play in that child's life in the future, which differs very significantly from the expectation of the commissioning parents. And then, of course, it's not until the children's born. And they will start to then talk about how birthdays will be spent, what the children will be told, what involvement all of these adults are going to have that these problems command. And what I would say is to sit down around a table very early on and to decide whether you are compatible as surrogates, genetic donors, and/or as commissioning parents is probably one of the most important factors in trying to minimize stress, unexpected consequences, and difficulties further down the line. [MUSIC PLAYING]